[Fot] COTA TR6

[Bob Kramer]

I noticed that I may have slighted previous Chump and Lemon’s efforts with this car in my note. This is the first WRL event where we made all the laps. WRL is a significant step up in racing versus the others. There are plenty of ex-Lemons and Chump cars running in WRL but there are also plenty of serious race cars out there as well.  Thus the comment referred only to WRL; this was our first such success in WRL.

 

From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob Kramer
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 12:41 PM
To: 'Chuck Arnold and/or Kathleen Kelley'; 'Friends'
Subject: Re: [Fot] COTA TR6

 

We had six drivers, most from the FOT list. Greg and Bob Blake, Bobby Whitehead, Dusty Nicholson, Richard Ceraldi and myself. All of us race other Triumphs and Richard has a GT6 street car and a Mini Cooper he does HPDE’s in.  The car progressed from a Lemon’s rat roller to a reasonable race car over time. I supervised the build of the original car and Greg and I have both done significant work  on improving it over time. It did a few Lemon’s weekends, then some Chump races and has competed in three WRL endurance weekends. This was the first one where we completed every lap, every hour. That is not to say we were on the lead laps. There were two factory built BMW M2’s out there a couple of Mustang purpose built racers, and a number of other P cars and  Beemers that lapped us many times. It was fun to race against the Corvettes in the rain, but the smaller Boxsters, S2000 and Miata’s had the better of us. Truth is not only were we the oldest car out there by far, we were also outclassed in speed potential by almost everyone, and in the rain that gapped widened. I did about more than two hours in heavy rain. It wasn’t the “race of a lifetime” but it was fun in a sadistic sort of way. 

 

Bob Kramer

 

From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Arnold and/or Kathleen Kelley
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 10:33 PM
To: Friends
Subject: [Fot] COTA TR6

 

Who was racing one there this weekend?

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